Ferry services quickly improvised

Amphibious vehicle ferry services were quickly improvised by the RCT Army unit at Fremington when Bideford bridge became unusable. Except for a period immediately before and after high tide, this involved vehicles and passengers negotiating extensive stretches of very clinging mud, particularly at the East-the-Water slipway near the school, where the photograph was taken.

A temporary jetty was therefore built out from the former goods station yard over the mud to the firmer sand and enabled crossings to be made at any state of the tide. On the west side landing and departure were at the steps opposite Bridgeland Street.

Gazette article 19 January 1968